April 26th, 2011

We're pleased to have John Coggeshall (and spring) return to NYPHP for our April meeting. Long-time web expert, John will show his latest techniques for rolling out and managing web applications.

One of the most undiscussed subjects in web application development today is application deployment. In this talk, we'll discuss how to use a great deployment tool Puppet to not only deploy your application into staging or production, but how that exact same work can be used to build robust development environments quickly and easily that are entirely consistent with their staging and production counterparts. In this talk you'll learn actionable techniques, tips and tricks to take your deployments and development environments from self-created hacks to robust maintainable processes.

John Coggeshall is CTO of Individual Digital, Inc., an advertising market platform designed to connect consumers and advertisers directly together. A former senior member of Zend Technologies' Global Services team, he got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of four published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O'Reilly. John also is a active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide. His web site, http://www.coggeshall.org/ is an excellent resource for any PHP developer and you can follow him on twitter by adding @coogle.